Chapter 11 AP PYSCH Flashcards

1007316471	Androgyny	the combination of masculine and feminine characteristics	0
1007316472	Animism	The belief that all things are living	1
1007316473	anxious ambivalent attachment	Suspicious of strangers	2
1007316474	Attachment	A close emotional bond of affection between infants and their caregivers	3
1007316475	Avoidant attachment	Children who avoid parents and caregivers	4
1007316476	Cephalocaudal trend	The head to foot direction of motor development	5
1007316477	Concrete operational period	The development of mental operations marks the beginning of this concrete operational period children can perform operations only on images of tangible objects and actual events	6
1007316478	Conservation	Piagets term for the awareness of physical quantities remain constant in spite of changes in the shape or appearance	7
1007316479	Dementia	An abnormal condition marked by multiple cognitive defects that include memory impairment	8
1007316480	Dishabituation	An increase in the strength of the habited response elicited by a new stimulus	9
1007316481	Egocentrism	A limited ability to share another persons viewpoint	10
1007316482	fetal alcohol syndrome	A collection of inborn problems associated with excessive alcohol use during pregnancy	11
1007316483	Formal operational period	Children begin to apply their operations to abstract concepts in addition to concrete objects	12
1007316484	Grasping reflex	a reflected action or movement; the sum total of any particular automatic response mediated by the nervous system.	13
1007316485	Habituation	A gradual reduction in the strength of a response when a stimulus event is presented repeatedly	14
1007316486	Infantile amnesia	And inability to remember experiences from ones early years	15
1007316487	Irreversibility	Inability to envision reversing an act	16
1007316488	Maturation	Development that reflects the gradual unfolding a one's genetic blueprint	17
1007316489	Menarche	The first occurence of menstruation	18
1007316490	Midlife crisis	A difficult turbulent doubts and reappraisal of ones life	19
1007316491	Motor development	The progression of muscular coordination required for physical activities	20
1007316492	Object permanence	Recognizing that objects continue to exist even when they are no longer visible	21
1007316493	Preoperational period	Children become adept to using signals but are also egocentric.	22
1007316494	Primary and secondary sex characteristics	Primary characteristics involve the sexual structures necessary for reproduction secondary sex characteristics include physical features that are associated with gender but that are not directly involved and reproduction	23
1007316495	Rooting reflex	reflex consisting of head-turning and sucking movements elicited in the normal infant	24
1007316496	Sensorimotor period	At this stage, individuals learn through the senses. Cognitive development is built through the infant's interactions with the environment. The sensorimotor period is broken down into six substages.	25
1007316497	Separation anxiety	Emotional distress seen in many instances when they are separated from people with him they have formed an attachment	26
1007316498	Secure attachment	Visibly upset when their caregivers leave. Happy when they return. Feel safest around caregivers.	27
1007316499	Social clock	The person's notion of the development schedule that specifies what he or she should have accomplished in life	28
1007316500	Temperament	And individuals characteristic mood activity level and emotional reactivity	29